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pronounphobia

pronounphobia noun: fear or hatred of, or aversion to, pronouns, especially as relates to modern gender identities.

Noun

pronounphobia (uncountable)

  1. (rare, sarcastic) Fear or hatred of, or aversion to, pronouns, especially as relates to modern gender identities.
    • Pronounphobia omg. Do they realise that they’ve used pronouns in that tweet 🤦2020 April 10, Charlie (@ThenonbinaryC), Twitter
    • Fr [for real]. All this internalised pronounphobia, like duh, everyone has pronouns2020 November 11, 'Ala ad-Din (@IbnAbiQ), Twitter

Origin of pronounphobia

From pronoun + -phobia.

Questions about pronounphobia

What does pronounphobia mean?
Pronounphobia means fear or hatred of, or aversion to, pronouns, especially as relates to modern gender identities.
What part of speech is pronounphobia?
Pronounphobia is a noun.

Words near pronounphobia in the dictionary

  1. pronouncings
  2. pronoune
  3. pronounes
  4. pronounless
  5. pronounlike
  6. pronounphobia
  7. pronouns
  8. pronouns demonstrative
  9. prons
  10. pronto
  11. pronto plate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pronounphobia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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